Comparison

Dark Blades vs GMToolkit

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Dark Blades

This tool helps you create and manage characters for the tabletop role-playing game Blades in the Dark. It provides access to all seven character types within the game's industrial fantasy setting.

Highlights
  • Character creation
  • Character management
  • All seven character types
  • Tabletop RPG tool
  • Blades in the Dark companion
Features
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Character Manager for Blades in the Dark. Blades in the Dark is a tabletop fantasy role-playing game by John Harper, set in a fictional city of Doskvol, inspired by Victorian London and Gothic fiction. The default setting of Blades in the Dark, Doskvol, is a roughly 19th century level of technology combined with urban fantasy. An industrial world under perpetual night, long after some great catastrophe has relegated the sun to storybooks, and resulted in the ghosts of the dead lingering in the world. Players take the role of members of a criminal organization such as thieves, smugglers, or merchants of some illicit goods, and grind their way up the criminal underworld by seizing money, territory and infamy. Tool to create and manage your Blades in the Dark characters. All seven character types are available to you. The use of the original book is necessary.

About

GMToolkit

Features
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This app generates randomized content for a Game Master (GM)/Dungeon Master (DM) to use during their game. It's designed to be easy to read and simple, making it perfect for using on-the-fly mid-game. As a GM/DM, your job is to fill in the gaps created by this app, or to use it for inspiration. For example, if you create a randomized City, it might give you descriptions like: - Theocracy - Egg Statues - Soot - Sacrifice - Rogue Knights So you might start describing the city as covered in soot with large stone egg statues. As your players start exploring the city, you can piece together in your head what's really going on: perhaps this is a dragon-worshipping city run by a cult. They have a yearly ritual where they hatch a dragon egg and sacrifice commoners to the newborn, however a group of defiant knights have started fighting back against this practice. This app is made of 75% human writing, then 25% AI writing based on that human writing (using Anthropic and self-improvement algorithms). If this app does well I'll come back and add an option to filter out the AI writing, but I made this app primarily for myself so I don't have a need for it personally. The writing is vetted and makes it less likely for content to run out.

Screenshots

Dark Blades4 screens
GMToolkit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GMToolkit at none against Dark Blades's 1. GMToolkit also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 10 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Dark Blades sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. GMToolkit asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dark Blades ships an update every 10 months, GMToolkit fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Dark Blades versus GMToolkit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDark BladesGMToolkit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB17 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperCarlos Vlchez DomnguezDale LaPlante

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Dark Blades

One-time1
  • Dark Blade Premium$4.99
None

GMToolkit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dark Blades free?
Dark Blades is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GMToolkit free?
GMToolkit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dark Blades or GMToolkit have ads?
Dark Blades shows ads; GMToolkit does not.
Which is updated more often, Dark Blades or GMToolkit?
Dark Blades ships an update every 10 months, and GMToolkit fortnightly. Most recently, Dark Blades was updated on November 3, 2026 and GMToolkit on October 31, 2026.

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